Almost all our English writers on this subject, possessed with this inchangeability of accent and quantity, tell us, that all accented syllables are long, making at the same time no distinction between the grave and acute accent.
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Almost all our English writers on this subject, possessed with this inchangeability of accent and quantity, tell us, that all accented syllables are long, making at the same time no distinction between the grave and acute accent.
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23 November 1850, Michael Faraday, letter to Julius Plücker I hope one day to return to the subject of magnetic or diamagnetic bodies and their inchangeability or their convertibility.
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